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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2019
Nuvoton Technology Corporation, Hsin-chu, TW;
Ziv Hershman, Givat Shmuel, IL;
Dan Morav, Herzliya, IL;
Ilan Margalit, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IL;
Nimrod Peled, Ganei Tikva, IL;
Moshe Alon, Tel-Aviv, IL;
NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
A security device includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured for connecting to a bus that serves a host device and a non-volatile memory (NVM) device. The processor is connected to the bus in addition to the host device and the NVM device. The processor is configured to detect on the bus a boot process, in which the host device retrieves boot code from the NVM device, and to ascertain a security of the boot process, based on an authentic copy of at least part of the boot code of the host device.